Smoking device.



J. R. ROETHER.

SMOKING DEVICE, APPLICATION FILED APILIG, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO., PHOTOALITHQ, WASHINGTON, D4 C.

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SMOKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 341, 19155.

Application filed April 16, 1914. Serial No. 832,165.

[a all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB R. ROETI-IER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

In the formation of pipes and cigar holders use has always been made of such materials as are porous and absorbent and as a result the oily substances of the tobacco eliminated by the process of smoking are absorbed by the tobacco-holding receptacle, causing it to become foul, objectionably odoriferous, and producing a smoke the taste of which is dependent upon the amount of oils in the walls of the receptacle. Numerous methods of removing the oils thus accumulated have been suggested but none of them completely accomplish the result and they are generally objectionable on account of their deleterious effects upon the substances of which the pipe and cigar holder are formed. I have discovered that the reasons for the adoption of the present employed substances are based upon erroneous ideas and that different and far superior results are obtained if the cigar holder or outer shell of the pipe be composed of a substance that is non-porous and non-absorbent, for which purpose 1 preferably employ horn.

By the use of such substances as horn the oils are not absorbed and the device may be readily cleaned by immersion in boiling wa ter, which cannot be used with wooden or meerschaum pipes as it swells or cracks these materials, and the cigar holder and pipe thus produced from horn are therefore absolutely hygienic, can be kept in a condition of perfeet cleanliness and are capable of producing a smoke of greater uniformity and purity. Further the horn does not crack under the heat of the tobacco combustion and on account of its hardness and non-liability to break, it possesses greater durability. I prefer to use horn as color effects of great artistic merit, due to the natural coloring of the substance, can be produced and the substance is capable of receiving an extremely high polish.

If desirable a removable inner lining may be employed which can be cheaply and eas ily replaced. This lining may be of any suitable substance, such as wood, meerschaum, etc.

The hygienic properties, its ease of purification, and the uniformity of the smoke produced render my new device of the greatest advantage over the absorbent materials previously employed.

The accompanying drawings illustrate several forms of my invention.

In the said drawings: Figure 1 illustrates a cross-section of one form of a pipe of my invention in which the removable inner lining is of less depth than the outer non-porous shell. Fig. 2 illustrates a cross-section of a pipe of my invention in which the inner lining fits snugly within the outer nonabsorbent shell. Fig. 3 illustrates one form of a cigar holder of my invention.

In Figs. 1 and 2 A represents the outer shell of horn or other non-absorbent substance. B represents an inner absorbent lining fitting over the top of the shell A at the edges C U and removable therefrom. D is a tubular mouthpiece being threaded at F and inserted through the outer shell A. in Fig. 1 a space is formed between the inner lining B and the outer shell A and a means of communication between the two is accomplished by an opening at E. In Fig. 1 the mouthpiece D penetrates the shell A below the bottom of the inner lining B while in Fig. 2 the mouthpiece D penetrates both the outer shell and the inner lining.

In the cigar holder illustrated in Fig. 3 A is the non-absorbent shell penetrated at F by the tubular mouthpiece D.

I do not limit myself to the particular forms shown in the illustrations, nor to horn as the non-absorbent material, allof which may be varied without going beyond the scope of my invention as described and claimed.

What is claimed, is: Signed at New York City in the county of As a new article of manufacture, a pipe New York, and State of New York, this comprising an outer horn receptacle, a sepa- 10th day of April, 1914:.

rable inner absorbent tobacco-holding cham- JACOB R. ROETHER, 5 ber, a tubular mouthpiece, and means of Witnesses:

communication between the inner chamber TERESA V. LYNCH,

and the tubular mouthpiece. LAURA E. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. G. 

